If we want to be freed up financially we must embrace the principle of GRATITUDE... (second message in this series)

Principles, The Essential Foundation
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The Money Rant Video
Good Morning Maple Grove!
WELCOME – to week 2 of our 5 week series, ‘Money Matters.’
Raise you hands if you…
NOW THIS A SERIES – that is centered around 3 words and a formula…
THE – words… Attitude,
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Gratitude and Giving
Series: Growing in Gratitude
December 3, 2017 – Brad Bailey
INTRO
Let me begin with a simple premise someone stated…
“What consumes your mind….controls your life. Practice gratitude.”
I think most of us find that what consumes our mind most is often
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Continuing our look at the 7 Deadly Sins. Focusing on greed and envy as we seek to draw closer to God.

7 Deadly Sins
Greed and Envy
March 11, 2018
The 2015 American Freshman Survey asked thousands of incoming students about their goals and aspirations. 81.9 % checked "becoming very well off financially" as an "essential" or "very important" life objective. That’s an astounding percentage.
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Paul gives us the antitode to worry, and he calls us to think right, pray right, and live right, as we live lives victorious for Christ.

Philippians 4:4-9
Advancing through Anxiety
Today we wrap up our four-Sunday walk through Philippians. I hope you have found it as relevant as I have. We’ve looked at keeping a heavenly perspective while living fully this life. We’ve sought to become a servant like Jesus. We’ve been challenged
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A message on how to show the LORD how thankful you are for His blessings in your life.

How to Show You Are Thankful
Scripture Reference: Luke 17:11-19
Preached at Ebenezer Church on November 20, 2016
Delivered by Rev. John Daniel Johnson
Illustration— Someone wrote this list of things for which he was Thankful.
"I am thankful for:
The taxes I pay - because it means I’m
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What we remember is a choice and gratitude is an attitude. Choose the things that bring thankfulness not those that elicit anger, regret and sadness.

A few years ago I had a conversation with a man that I knew at church. He had lost his business when fire gutted his store, and because he had no insurance, starting over was difficult. Moreover, he also was recently divorced and had lost custody of his children except that he was permitted to see
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The descendants of the Pilgrims would put 5 kernels of corn on an empty plate and each family member would pick up a kernel and tell what they were thankful for. This sermon examines “Five Kernels of Thanksgiving” that David shares in Ps. 103:1-5.

Five Kernels of Corn at Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving sermon
Chuck Sligh
November 19, 2017
Adapted from Five Kernels Of Corn, by Bruce Howell on SermonCentral.com.
TEXT: Psalms 103:1-5 – “Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
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The enemy of exceptionality is ordinary. But often times, the pressure to fit in only leaves us with ordinary. Ordinary people never go beyond the common denominator. This is the story of how thanksgiving distinguished a leper, making him exceptional.

This is the story of how thanksgiving and gratitude can make you exceptional in the midst of ordinary. It is the story of the ten lepers who Jesus healed on His long and arduous journey to Jerusalem.
It is critical to note the writer of this scriptural narrative, the timing of the event and
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In the Bible, giving of thanks goes far beyond an annual American celebration on a day we remember to thank God for a multitude of blessings. It is a preoccupation of every Christian and extends even to those elders who are "before the throne" in heaven.

Note: I have some simple, not fancy textual slides I used with this sermon. If anyone is interested, I'll send them directly by email if you'll send an email to me at sam@srmccormick.net with the subject: Thanksgiving slides.
THANKSGIVING
I. In his 2nd letter to the Corinthian church, Paul
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In this sermon we look at God's amazing grace and how it upgrades our lives, along with the attitudes that such grace produces in our lives

God’s Amazing Grace
There are a lot of words that are misunderstood in today’s culture. Take for instance the word “love.” A lot of people say, “I’m in love,” but in truth it’s more like, “I’m in lust.”
But there is one word that we cannot afford to misunderstand, and that’s because it has
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From Psalm 50 message explores basic direction for what to do. For example, we are to be thankful; we are to do what we promise to do; and in times of trouble, call on the Lord.

Psalm 50:7-15
Richard Tow 3/13/16
Last week I spoke from Micah 6:8 “He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?”1 We entitled that message “Foundational Guidance” because in that verse God tells
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There are certain things that parents try to teach their children as they are growing up. And we usually focus on two things. Their actions and their words.

“An Attitude of Gratitude”
Luke 17:11-19
There are certain things that parents try to teach their children as they are growing up. And we usually focus on two things. Their actions and their words. Their manners. We taught our children to say “yes sir” and “no sir,” “yes ma’am no ma’am.” Please
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In Luke 7 two people are in the presence of Jesus, an unnamed woman and Simon the Pharisee. Message compares their worship experience and draws key concepts for meaningful worship.

01.29.17
Intro
We are pursuing a heart of worship. We are desiring to go deeper in our worship experience with God. Last week we saw that achieving this is not so much a matter of methods and techniques, as it is the condition of the heart. In His conversation with the Woman at the Well Jesus
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This psalm expresses gratitude to God – something we can ALL do more of. What we choose to do with this information is entirely up to each of us. Will we desire to run to Him, or be slaves to ourselves and our own desires?

A Study of Psalm 34
Psalm 34
Introduction
- Wed night format; opportunity to study together from our homes
-- Ask questions if you’d like in the comments (during this time or later)
-- Re: Invite someone else to join in – not an exclusive study for “just us”
- Psalms broken into 5
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